The World

Dr. Robert P. Gale, a UCLA bone marrow specialist, said the death toll from the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26 has risen to 30, confirming reports of Western journalists who found two new graves in a special cemetery plot near Moscow for Chernobyl victims. Gale, who has just completed another Soviet visit to help treat Chernobyl victims, was interviewed in Tel Aviv.